When I was Noo but Sweet Sixteen
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
October 1953
Track ID
26555
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.235.A7
Original Tape ID
Summary
In this song, a young nineteen-year-old woman has been abandoned by her ploughman lover, and must care for their baby all alone. She regrets not having listened to her mother, and recalls with sadness how fine life was not so long ago when she was sixteen.
Hamish Henderson remarks that this song has a line recently imported from a much older song, 'The Bonnie Rantin Laddie'.
Item Notes
4 verses. A variant title is 'Hishie Ba' (Roud 3449).
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
English, Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair